Improvement in plows



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No.154,315. Patented Aug- 25,1814.

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ROBERT w. BANKS}, or DADEVILLE, ALABAMA.

IMPROVEMENT IN FLOWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 154,315, dated August25, 1874; application filed May 16, 1874.

' .To all whom it may concern:

top View of the same; Fig. 3, a vertical section thereof, in a planeindicated by the line 00 m, Fig. 1. i

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

The nature of my invention consists in the employment of a wheel, disk,or short cylinder, A, attached to the beam B of a shovel- ,plow, orother plow of its class, arranged in combination with the standard (3,having a hoop form, and surrounding the periphery of the same, and thehandles-D D,in such a manner that the angle of the standard and theheight of the handles-are adjusted by means thereof in a-veryperfect andconvenient manner, and great strength and lightness. of construction anddurability in operation are efl'ected thereby, and the weight. of theplow is located just where it is required or is most desirable. Also,the construction of the plow is such that no wood is used where it isliable to split from bolts passing through at places subject to muchstrain. The beam B of the plow is made of wroughtiron, split and partedvertically, except a small portion of the forward end and at the rearend. The wheel A is located in this opening, near the rear end thereof,and is secured therein by a bolt, to, through its center, answering alsoas a pivot around which the wheel is adjusted, and by bolts 12 12, nearits periphery, through it and the beam, serving also to adjust the anglethereof, if desired, though I do not ordinarily propose to adjust eitherthe standard 0 or handles D D thereby. The

standard (3, bearing the shovel or point B, is

made of a strap of iron, bent in the middle so as to fit closely aroundthe periphery of the wheel A, like the tire of a carriage-wheel, anditsends are bolted to an intermediate block, 0, of wood, as shown, theconnecting bolt or bolts serving also the purpose of attaching the pointto the standard. The circular part of the strap can move around theperiphery of the wheel A, so as to adjust the angle and position of thestandard, audit is secured to the wheel to hold the standard at therequired angle by a bolt, 61, passing through it and one of a series ofholes, f f, extending radially through the rim of the wheel, as shown inFigs. 1 and 3. The handles D D are attached to the handleeuprights G G,which, at their lower ends, are secured to the beam A by the same belt athat passes through the center of the adjusting-wheel A, so. that theirangle of inclination can be adjusted concentrically with the wheel, andthese uprights 'are secured at the angle required by a bolt, h,

passing through them and through one of a series of adjusting-holes, it,extending laterally across the rim of the wheel, as shown in Fig. 1.Thus the handles are adjusted to any height required. The forward endsof the handles have to be varied in position at every adjustment oftheir height by the means above specified. This is effected by the useof a wooden block, I, bolted between the sides of the plow-beam, andprovided with a series of V adjusting-holes, m m, through one of whichthe bolt 1), which attaches the ends of the handles thereto, extends.

The adjusting-wheel A may be made of cast-iron, and it is thereforecheap of construction. A

What I claim as my invention, and desire and arranged as described, withthe hoopshaped plow-standard 0, adjustable around the periphery of thesame, substantially as and for the purpose herein specified.

Specification signed by me this 1st day of April, 187 4. l

ROBERT WILLIAM BANKS.

Witnesses:

B. F. HAMMOOK,

O. P. SANFORD.

